Why Are You Really Here?

Keep asking why

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Why are you here?

Sit with the question.

Listen to the answers.

Observe smart, obvious answers to hurl themselves at you:
Money,
Being Discovered,
Telling the Truest Truth,
Telling My Story to Help Someone Else,
Because Someone Told Me To Write on Medium,
And Other Great Responses.

Let those answers flood your mind, bludgeon you with logical and righteous declarations proving you are the best and the brightest who has ever lived.

Chase the ones that are biggest, baddest, and most complex. Make them tell you exactly what they mean.

When the flood diminishes from torrent to trickle, ask a truer question:

Why am I here?

Let those answers come to you.

Don’t chase after them.
Don’t mull over their worth.
Simply let them arrive.

Wispy breaths of nothing much, wavering signals beaming dim then bright, and bursts of blather…